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Summary: Clean tools make clean pots. Learn how to properly clean pottery tools before you start throwing pots with tips from a master potter in this free ceramics video.
Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more
"Now that our tools and soap and dry clay is loosened up we will get them up and dry them off real nice and get all those little clay chunks out of there. Some people may say that this doesn't matter but I think it does when you start to clean tools. There is our set of clean tools. Let me find the needle tool. There we go. The tools are ready, slop bucket is ready and now we are going to move on to clay prep. This is very important too to have all your clay prepped up so once you are down on the wheel you stay down there until all your work is done. You are not getting up and working from the table and the wheel. What I like to do here is just go right down the middle and down the middle and right down the middle here and then from here we will start rounding it up and making nice little balls that are about the same size so we can do some production."
eHow Article: Cleaning Pottery Tools
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